BLUE STATE Definition & Meaning

blue state

[ bloo steyt ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

U.S. Politics.

a state of the U.S. that usually votes Democratic.

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Origin of blue state¹

With reference to the color used on maps in televised coverage of the 2000 U.S. presidential election to show the states won by the Democratic candidate

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Both Salt Lake City and Cincinnati were perceived as blue cities within red states, while Boulder is seen as a blue city in a blue state.

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“Now it has started to become much more of this kind of red state, blue state thing,” said Richard Carpiano, a public policy professor at the UC Riverside who has studied vaccine hesitancy.

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Monday’s suit is one of several that Bonta and blue state attorneys general have filed against the Trump administration.

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The point is simple: The Trump administration is showing extreme governing competence in helping Los Angeles recover from the wildfires, and no signs at all of punishing a deeply blue state.

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Surely, moderate Republicans like Sen. Susan Collins—who is up for reelection next year in the reliably blue state of Maine—would consider Kennedy and Gabbard too treacherous to swallow?

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